David Gregory, journalist, former host of Meet the Press, author of "How's Your Faith?"

Rabbi Susan Goldberg, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, outreach and engaging millennial-generation Jews

Professor Mark Kligman, Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music, UCLA

Professor Michael Kagan, Non-Jewish Refugees in Israel

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” and the new book, “Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life”

Ted Merwin, author, “Pastrami on Rye”

Alan Morinis, Dean of the Mussar Institute, author of "Everyday Holiness", Bilgray Lectureship Scholar on Mussar

Dr. Robert Brooks, Ph.D. psychologist, author of 12 books, and expert speaker on Resilience and Mindset

Comedian Joel Chasnoff

Rabbi Mary Zamore, Executive Director, Women’s Rabbinic Network, the only organization of woman rabbis in the world